My 2nd Birthday!

Here is our precious little girl 2 years ago. It's hard to believe she has blessed our lives for 2 years already. They have been 2 wonderful years, and can't wait for more.

Here I am on my 1st birthday!

Here I am as a big girl, it's hard to believe I'm 2 already!

Since we are in the condo, and I can't travel due to the baby being due in a couple weeks, we are pushing back her birthday celebration until we are in the house and Tucker is here. We still of course got her gifts, and will be getting her a cake on Sunday when grammy and grampy come up to celebrate. Here is what I did on my actual birthday.

Daddy's students at school made me cards, so daddy read through them with me.

Here I am walking in to see all my gifts. How exciting!

Here I am opening up the box for my table. I have no idea what it is!

Here I am playing with some of my new toys.

You can tell I'm a girl, I get excited about clothes.

I even hold them up to me!

Here I am enjoying my new table. I said "eat" right when I saw it.

More birthday celebration pictures to follow!

House Updates

The house is so close to being done! We close on the 29th of April. Everytime we go it seems they get so much done. Now it's just little odds and ends to do.

Here's the front of it.

We have carpet, so Riley loves to go run around on it! This is the loft.
Here's the staircase entering the entry way.

Here's the bathroom flooring upstairs.

Here's Riley and I's appearance. The bathrooms have all the fixtures and lights. The toilets actually were going in today when Jeremy was there.

Here's the family room with carpet. The fireplace has since been painted.

Here's the kitchen without the appliances and door on the pantry, which are now there. The wood floors are down too, but are covered with the cardboard.

Stay tuned for more - hopefully of the finished product!

Easter Morning

On Easter morning, I woke up like any other morning and got in bed with mom and dad. On their dresser I noticed an Elmo basket with toys in it. I pointed and said "that?" Mom got it for me, and I was very excited! Here I am looking in it for the first time.

I got some Play-Doh with animal stamps.

A Magna-Doodle and some coloring and watercolor books.

I of course needed to play with them right away.

I haven't quite got the hang of the water painting yet. I soak the brush and it goes through about 4 pages at a time.

Then it was time for church. Here I am with my basket of course, because they were having an Easter egg hunt after the service.

The Easter Bunny was there - not a big fan! Mom had to pick me up and try to take me over there, but I was not having that. I prefer Santa.

Here I am hunting eggs, I only got one because I was too worried about where the Easter Bunny was. I had to watch him out of the corner of my eye the whole time.

Overall, I had a wonderful Easter!

House Updates

The house is really moving along! It is fun going to see it frequently and see how quick it changes. It sure makes us ready to move in now! Here is the front of the house. All the brick and siding is on it.

The fireplace is installed.

When we went today the cabinets, countertops, and appliances were installed. There is our kitchen!

Here's the office. Yesterday they had the french doors up, but they took them down to paint them. If you look hard, you'll notice the trim is up all over the house.

We now have our stair rails.

The cabinets in the bathrooms are in as well.

Riley just wanted in one of the shots, so here she is standing in the spare bedroom.

I'm Going to be a Flower Girl

I am going to be the flower girl in my Uncle Bryan's and Jenny's wedding in June. My dress just came in so I decided to try it on. Don't mind the hair I will try to make it a little more manageable for the big day, but isn't the dress pretty?

I liked it so much I thought I'd wear it while playing. Don't worry Jenny, it's just a water marker it won't draw on anything but the pad on the floor.
Grammy and mommy finally convinced me to take it off.

My Own Style

I have really started to develop my own sense of style. The other day I just wanted to wear this vest. I also got a pair of froggy rain boots that I like to wear even on sunny days. I will get a picture of those soon.

Running Out of Room

After Riley was born, we started to run out of room in our house - now that Tucker is on the way, I'm not the only thing that is busting at the seams. We decided it was time to find a bigger house. We put ours on the market and it sold a lot quicker than expected - which left us in a pickle! Our realtor, whom we love, said it was time to start looking. We have to be out of our house by March 23rd, but unfortunately the house we fell in love with (pictured below) is a work in progress. It will not be done until the first of May (ironic - my due date being May 6th). We decided to make it work. Since I have such a wonderful brother who is in Atlanta for a year, he is letting us borrow his condo for about a month while we await the house and the newest Marvel. A lot of changes for our family, but all exciting! Here are some pics of the new house in Westfield. Enjoy!

The spare bedroom - I won't bore you with the pictures of all the bedrooms. They are all upstairs though.

Here's the loft when you first walk up the stairs. (AKA the future play room)

Here is the kitchen. Can't you picture me cooking in it already? Oh, nevermind I don't cook!

Here is the family room. We are standing in the kitchen taking the picture.

Here's the entry way into the kitchen. To the right of the stairs is the office and the dining room.

This is looking down from the loft onto the entry way. Riley already loves the stairs.

This is looking out the door from the breakfast area to the backyard. Try to picture Riley and Tucker's swingset.

I hope you enjoyed the tour! We'll try to keep you updated as much as possible.